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Evolution: Climate – A Digital Heat Wave
The Evolution app recently launched the Climate expansion, which adds significant changes to the Evolution landscape. If you haven't already, you can check out my thoughts on the base game of Evolution here! What's Different? Evolution: Climate adds a weather mechanic...
Evolution – It’s Not Easy Being a Carnivore
Number of (physical) plays: 6Designers: Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre, and Sergey MachinArtists: JJ Ariosa, Giorgio De Michele, Catherine Hamilton, and Kurt MillerRelease Year: 2014Mechanics: Hand Management, Direct Conflict, Secret Unit DeploymentPublisher:...
Eclipse – It’s a Euro-y War Game, I Swear!
Number of plays: 3 Designer: Touko Tahkokallio Artists: Ossi Hiekkala and Sampo Sikiö Release Year: 2011 Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Modular Board, Direct Conflict It's always fascinating when a piece of media tries to cross barriers between genres. I'm thinking of games...
The Fox in the Digital Forest
Game Length: 5-10 minutes Mechanics: Hand Management, Trick Taking Release Year: 2021 (Steam) Designer: Joshua Buergel Artist: Jennifer L. Meyer Publisher: Direwolf Digital A pre-release review code was provided by Direwolf Digital. I played the Steam version of The...
Hamsters vs. Hippos – The Hippos are Always Hungry
A copy of Hamsters vs. Hippos was provided by the publisher Number of Plays: 4 Game Length: 15 – 40 minutes Mechanics: Press your luck, Player Elimination Release Year: 2021 Designer: James Freeman, James Staley, Adam Staley Artist: César Ayala Delgado Publisher: Tin...
Food Chain Magnate
Number of Plays: 16 Game Length: 120-240 minutes Mechanics: card drafting, economic market, action selection Release Year: 2015 Designer: Jeroen Doumen, Joris Wiersinga Artist: Iris de Haan, Ynze Moedt Introduction Let’s flash back to 2008. I was 17 and had just moved...
Project L – Spatial Relation Splendor
Number of Plays: 4 Game Length: 15 - 30 minutes Mechanics: Tile Placement, Puzzle Release Year: 2019 Designer: Michal Mikeš, Jan Soukal, Adam Spanel Artist: Jaroslav Jurica, Marek Loskot, Pavel Richter Intro Let me tell you a bit about my mom. Some of my earliest...
Pairs
Number of Plays: 34 Game Length: 5 minutes Mechanics: Push your luck Release Year: 2014 Designer: James Ernest, Heinrich Gumpler, Paul Peterson Artist: Like, 25 people. Depends on the version you buy. Intro My favourite book of all time is The Name of the Wind by...
Head to Head: Calico vs Cascadia
Over the past few weeks I've been playing Cascadia by Randy Flynn. One evening in particular I played Cascadia, then immediately after played Calico by Kevin Russ. While the two games share some similarities, the biggest thing they have in common is that they're both...
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